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Agricultural Household Response to Avian Influenza Prevention and Control Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Robert H. Beach ,
Christine Poulos  and
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak
Robert H. Beach
Affiliation:
Food and Agricultural Policy Research Program, Research Triangle Park, NC
Christine Poulos
Affiliation:
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Program, Research Triangle Park, NC
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak
Affiliation:
RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC
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Abstract

Recent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Asia, Europe, and Africa have caused severe impacts on the poultry sector through bird mortality and culling, as well as resulting trade restrictions and negative demand shocks. Although poultry producers play a major role in preventing and controlling avian influenza, little research has examined the influence of their farm-level decision making on the spread of the disease. In this study, we describe farm behavior under livestock disease risk and discuss data and analyses necessary to generate sound empirical evidence to inform public avian influenza prevention and control measures.

Keywords

agricultural household modelavian influenzacontrol measureseconomic epidemiologylivestock diseasepoultry productionQ12Q18
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , August 2007 , pp. 301 - 311
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2007

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